[Mimedefang] Installing on FreeBSD

[ADNET Ghislain]

Lisa Casey wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I need to install Mimedefang on a FreeBSD 4.6 system as the Redhat
> system I was running my mail server on crashed. I've  upgraded perl to
> 5.8.6 (it was 5.001 or something like that) and installed the
> necessary perl modules for mimedefang. I have a couple of questions
> though about installing on FreeBSD (this is different from the way my
> Red Hat system was).
>
> I have Sendmail 8.13 on here. According to the Mimedefang instructions
> I need to make sure I have a queue runner. Does anyone know if
> Sendmail 8.13 will do this automatically? In the mimedefang
> instructions I was reading it said to do this by adding sendmail -Ac
> -qp5m to the init script for Sendmail. On my Red Hat system this was
> in /etc/init.d. I can't find where I should specify this on FreeBSD.
>
> When I installed my radius server on this FreeBSD system, I put the
> init script for it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d (there's  no sendmail script
> therre). Is this where I should put my mimedefang init script? How
> will I know if this stops & starts mimedefang at the right times? I
> believe mimedefang should start up after Sendmail does and should be
> stopped before Sendmail is.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lisa Casey
>
>
>
>
Hi lisa,

  You should use the port system to install it on freeBSD, think of it
like the rpm for redhat... :)

regards,
Ghislain.

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